Child Heart Surgery
Explore 3D hearts and conditions
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
Description
Explore a 3D animated to compare a healthy with one affected by tetralogy of Fallot and MAPCAs. Rotate and move the model to view internal structures. Learn about the unifocalization technique through guided explanations and visual demonstrations.
In this interactive 3-D animation, our doctors compare a healthy heart to one with a complex congenital condition called tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs). You get to learn about the heart by moving, rotating and exploring it yourself. Our doctors also guide you through the innovative repair technique, called unifocalization, which involves rebuilding the blood vessel connection between the heart and lungs, usually in just one surgery. You can perform a simplified (and non-gory) simulation of this surgery at the end of the app.
Currently, the app only supports iPad 3 or later.